{"id":86875,"date":"2019-07-04T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T11:10:18","slug":"nccrs-idea-of-using-plastic-rocks-to-grow-corals-draws-flak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nccrs-idea-of-using-plastic-rocks-to-grow-corals-draws-flak\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCR\u2019s idea of using \u2018plastic rocks\u2019 to grow corals draws flak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park\nauthorities have rejected the National Centre for Coastal Research\u2019s (NCCR)\nproposal of using the Gulf of Mannar region for field tests.<\/li><li>NCCR had proposed dropping \u2018melted plastic rocks\nor slabs\u2019 on the seabed for growing coral reefs and address the problem of disposal\nof plastic waste.<\/li><li>The proposal has been rejected on the grounds\nthat corals in the GoM were already stressed and bleached under climate change and\nfield testing would further destroy the existing coral reef colonies. <\/li><li>The Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park is a\nprotected area consisting of 21 small islands and adjacent coral reefs in the\nGulf of Mannar in the Indian Ocean. It lies off the east coast of Tamil Nadu. It\nis the core area of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve.<\/li><li>In India, coral rehabilitation was first initiated\nin Tuticorin coast of Gulf of Mannar in 2002 by Suganthi Devadason Marine\nResearch Institute (SDMRI) with the support from Ministry of Environment and\nForests and Coral reef Degradation in Indian Ocean (CORDIO).<\/li><li>In India, coral reefs are located in 7 regions:\nGoa coast, Kerala coast, Palk Bay, Gulf of Kucch, Gulf of Mannar, Lakshadweep\nislands, Andaman and Nicobar islands.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park authorities have rejected the National Centre for Coastal Research\u2019s (NCCR) proposal of using the Gulf of Mannar region for field tests. NCCR had proposed dropping \u2018melted plastic rocks or slabs\u2019 on the seabed for growing coral reefs and address the problem of disposal of plastic waste. The proposal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nccrs-idea-of-using-plastic-rocks-to-grow-corals-draws-flak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCCR\u2019s idea of using \u2018plastic rocks\u2019 to grow corals draws flak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[575,4545],"class_list":["post-86875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coral-reefs","tag-gulf-of-mannar-national-park","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704849160},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}